The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab-only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee “humanzee” named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie’s human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA’s stance has become ever more extreme, and now they’re here to drag Charlie into their terrorist plot…Winner of the prestigious Manga Taisho, as well as an Excellence Award at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, The Darwin Incident is as action-packed as it is socially relevant!
Half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie is at the center of a maelstrom: the ALA want to turn him into a terrorist figurehead, the FBI want to bring him in, and the people of Shrews want nothing to do with him... Amid the chaos, Charlie has lost his family. But who took them from him? The answer could change the world—!!